Movies and TvShows featuring "anti-fascist" theme.
Not The Nine O'Clock News is a British satirical sketch comedy show that aired from 1979 to 1982. The show featured a mix of sketches, musical numbers, and parodies that lampooned current events, politics, and pop culture. It was known for its sharp wit, social satire, and biting commentary on various issues. Not The Nine O'Clock News became an influential show in British comedy and is still regarded as a classic today.
Romper Stomper (2018) is a TV mini-series set 25 years after the events of the film. It explores the clash between far-right extremists and anti-fascist activists in contemporary Australia.
Set in Nazi-occupied Poland, 'Uprising' follows the brave resistance fighters of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. With their city devastated and their lives at stake, they engage in guerilla warfare and create tunnels and bunkers to fight against the brutal Nazi regime. This TV movie showcases the heroic struggle of the Warsaw Ghetto against all odds.
Set during the breakup of Yugoslavia, an electrician named Marko and a cat named Bosko end up in an underground shelter during a bombing. Inside the shelter, they encounter a cast of eccentric characters and navigate the surreal and chaotic world of war.
The Baader Meinhof Complex is a gripping portrayal of the rise and fall of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang, a left-wing terrorist group in 1970s Germany. The film follows the group's violent attacks, kidnappings, and bombings as they fight against capitalism and perceived political injustice. Based on true events, this intense drama explores the personal relationships, ideological struggles, and ultimate downfall of the group.
Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011) is a movie based on the novel of the same name. It follows the story of Dagny Taggart, a successful businesswoman who struggles to keep her family's railroad company alive amidst a worsening economic recession. As she fights against government regulations and sanctions while facing growing fears of a collapsing society, Dagny finds herself drawn to the mysterious figure of John Galt, a genius inventor and advocate of individual freedoms. The movie explores themes of capitalism, individualism, and the consequences of government control.
In 1938 Rome, a housewife and a gay journalist find solace and connection with each other during a day filled with political intrigue, societal oppression, and personal struggles.
Salvador (Puig Antich) is a movie that tells the true story of a Spanish anarchist in 1974 who becomes a symbol of resistance against the Francoist regime. The film explores his activism, his arrest, and the political tensions of the time. It showcases the harsh realities of police brutality, torture, and the struggle for freedom in a totalitarian regime.
Based on real events, '13 Minutes' tells the story of Georg Elser, a clockmaker who tried to kill Hitler with a bomb in Munich in 1939. The movie explores Elser's motivations, his planning, and his eventual capture and imprisonment by the Nazis.
Difficult Years (1948) follows the story of a widow in Italy as she navigates the political and social challenges of the pre-war and war years. It explores themes of moral cowardice, political activism, and the fall of fascism.
Cornered (1945) is a film-noir drama thriller set in post-World War II Europe. After his wife is murdered, a World War II veteran named Laurence Gerard embarks on a mission to track down those responsible. He travels to Europe and uncovers a conspiracy involving a fascist organization and a war criminal. As he dives deeper into the mystery, Gerard is confronted with danger, betrayal, and a race against time to bring justice to his wife's killer. With each step, he becomes more cornered, both physically and emotionally, in a world full of secrets and lies.
Christ Stopped at Eboli is a movie set in the interwar period in southern Italy. It explores the lives of intellectuals and peasants in a remote village, showcasing their struggles under the fascist regime. The story follows a doctor who is exiled to the village and his interactions with the locals.
A French documentary on how groups of youth in Paris generated a backlash against the NeoNazi skinhead subculture, and by doing so earned themselves the nickname Chasseurs de Skins or 'Skinhead Hunters'.
Set during the Spanish Civil War, a woman navigates her life as an anarchist's wife while facing the challenges of family relationships, love, and resistance against fascism.
Cinco fueron escogidos taking place in Slavko, a "peaceful town in Yugoslavia," with only Yugoslavians and Germans as characters, not a Mexican or Spaniard in sight. Another interesting point about Cinco fueron escogidos is the existence of an alternate version, shot in English with a different cast (at least in major roles). Sadly, this film, usually referred to as "Five Were Chosen" but sometimes called "Hostages" (not to be confused with the somewhat similar 1943 Hollywood movie with that title), appears to be lost. García Riera indicates the English-language version was screened in Mexico, at least for the press, but does not seem to have been released commercially in the Mexico or the USA. Since Herbert Kline was well-known for his leftist views, it's not surprising to note that many of the imported Hollywood actors were also left-leaning (and in fact more than one was blacklisted during the Red Scare era).
East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a resistance movement led by a leftist Nazi officer, Harro Schulze-Boysen, and Arvid Harnack.
The latest exploitation / Grindhouse feature film from Ungovernable Films, featuring all your favorite ungovernable motifs like sex, gore, violence, nudity, schlock, and laughs! Oh, and of course a social message! This time it's "fuck the police!"
When a man in a Greek village is mistaken for his twin brother, who is involved in a vendetta, he must navigate the consequences while dealing with the eccentricities of the village residents.
Antonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist tribunals, relives the stages of his political career and private life.
A low-intensity war is being fought on the streets of Europe and the aim is on fascism. This critically acclaimed documentary takes us behind the masks of the militants called antifascists. In 2013 a group of armed nazis attacks a peaceful demonstration in Stockholm where several people are injured. In Greece the neo-nazi party Golden Dawn becomes the third largest in the election and in Malmö the activist Showan Shattak and his friends are attacked by a group of nazis with knives and he ends up in a coma. In this portrait of the antifascists in Greece and Sweden we get to meet key figures that explain their view on their radical politics but also to question the level their own violence and militancy.